Like dozens of other people, I am part of the Elaine's diaspora, an eclectic group of New Yorkers who had to leave our comfortable roost in the early hours of May 27 , 2011 less than six months after our mother hen, the proprietress Elaine Kaufman, died at 81 after running the restaurant for more than 47 years.
In the back of the cab, behind the driver and his helper, was a concealed bunk, and that was to be our hidden roost for the next fifty miles.
From Kurt Weil to Bertolt Brecht, Lou Reed to Iggy Pop, Nick Cave to the minimal techno DJs currently ruling the roost, our image of Berlin is shaped by the ambitious music created there.
You have to knock off most of his bishops, knights and rooks, but here in the U.S., coal and oil still rule the roost, our reliance on them intact.
This is our reckoning, our karma come to roost.
Recently when I was in one of our five fields there was a whirr of wings and a large bird landed and began pecking about – our male pheasant (it roosts in our wildlife sanctuary).
When our daughter flew the roost it never occurred to me to fill the empty nest with a dog.
They rule the roost on our streets, causing mayhem, spurred on by Britain's liberal attitude to discipline, soft-touch policing and the absence of community spirit.
In simulations for our two largest networks, roost removal was related linearly to network fragmentation; despite this, networks were relatively robust, requiring removal of >20% of roosts to cause network fragmentation.
